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old wives' tale

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Synonyms and Antonyms of old wives' tale

a false idea or belief

The belief that going outside with wet hair will cause you to catch cold is just an old wives' tale.

Synonyms of old wives' tale

delusion, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, untruth

Words Related to old wives' tale

fiction, pretense (or pretence)

distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstanding

misinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

sophism, sophistry

fib, half-truth, lie, story, tale

Antonyms of old wives' tale

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